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...lived aviation. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, he landed a job with Lockheed in the Depression year of 1933, largely on the basis of an impressive wind-tunnel analysis he had made of a model of a forthcoming Lockheed plane; the young graduate recommended a twin tail for the new all-metal, twin-engine Electra, Lockheed's first successful passenger plane (Neville Chamberlain used it to fly home from Munich). Reason: a single rudder offered inadequate control if an engine conked...
...Lockheed's Hudson bomber. In a series of all-night sessions at the drawing board, he completely redesigned the plane to meet British specifications. At that time he was also working on what would become one of the most celebrated U.S. fighter planes in World War II, the twin-boom P-38 Lightning, which awed Luftwaffe pilots called der Gabelschwanz Teufel (Fork-Tailed Devil). Even before the first Lightning took off, Johnson shrewdly anticipated a problem that would soon plague all high-speed aircraft...
...keeping with the marked obsession of this week's capsules with the twin themes of Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards will open Jan 31 at the Harvard Epworth Church. Sometimes, everything seems to come together like some vast jigsaw puzzle...
Skeptics in and out of Congress will surely question the Administration's twin assumptions that higher fuel prices really will bring a significant drop in consumption and that they really are needed to spur production. Right now, for instance, what seems to be holding back many oilmen is not the prospect of scant profits but a severe shortage of drilling equipment. In sum, the Administration may have a hard time selling its market approach on the Hill...
...outskirts of the city of Suez stand twin six-foot portraits of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. The pictures symbolize Egyptian hopes that Arab oil money will finance the reconstruction of the war-ruined Suez Canal Zone and eventually convert it into a thriving agricultural and industrial region. One tangible result of this dream is "King Faisal City," a suburb of 3,000 housing units that is being built behind the portraits. Another is the announcement, expected imminently, that salvage operations in the canal, which has been closed since 1967, have been completed...